Lot #84 - Alfred Leslie, 1927-2023 (USA/New York)

Alfred Leslie, 1927-2023 (USA/New York)

Estimate: 4 000 - 8 000 £

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Lot Description

Alfred Leslie (1927-2023). 1959. Oil on canvas, size 101,5 x 117 cm (40 x 46 inches). Signed and dated lower right and on the verso. (Alfred Leslie, born in New York City in 1927, began as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but in the 1960s moved to an intense, large-scale realism. He studied at New York University in 1946-57 with Tony Smith, Hale Woodruff, John McPherson and William Baziotes. Unlike most artists who spend years struggling to establish themselves, Leslie quickly gained a reputation as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist. Alfred Leslie's paintings are in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Kuntshalle, Basel, Switzerland; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Sources: Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art.)